Enterprise Education News

Education Secretary Ed Balls was a surprise special guest at Linton Village College (LVC) last week when he turned up to present one of the school's 'inspirational' staff with a national teaching award....continued

Rachel Elnaugh - entrepreneur, author and former TV 'Dragon' - will visit Nottingham University Business School on October 16 to talk to 800 first-year students on the Entrepreneurship and Business programme. The first of two talks begins at 4pm, when she will describe her experience of launching the multi-million pound gift experiences company Red Letter Days, taking in the dark days when the business collapsed in 2005....continued

Children as young as 10 should be encouraged to think about their future career path or university education, Schools Secretary Ed Balls said....continued

TWO budding film-makers will have their work shown at the prestigious National Media Museum in Bradford....continued

Young people are set to broadcast their views on how the district should develop. School pupils have been asked to highlight the direction they would like to see Bradford take. Their opinions will form part of the district’s Local Development Framework (LDF). ...continued

HUNDREDS of teenagers from schools across York and North Yorkshire are battling it out to discover who is the most enterprising. ...continued

Britain’s youngsters will come top of the business league as football clubs across the country open their doors to budding entrepreneurs....continued

MP John Healey will help celebrate the successes of a Rotherham youth enterprise project he helped pioneer....continued

ENTERPRISING young people from 12 secondary schools in Sheffield are taking part in the first stage of a competition designed to inspire and develop the region's future business leaders....continued

Children need to be taught about entrepreneurship, but are schools really the place to do it?...continued

Labour has failed to support the teaching of entrepreneurship in schools...continued

Economic leaders and education scholars are calling for an increase in initiative, self-regulation, critical thinking, and lifelong learning skills among young people to meet the needs of the growing knowledge economy. If we want to be competitive in the world economic arena and maintain our high standard of living, we must rise to the challenge....continued

QUEEN’S Park High School has been awarded Young Enterprise North West’s School of the Year for 2008....continued

A SCHOOL has become the first in the UK to set up a company turning pupils’ enterprise projects into real businesses....continued

Employers may claim to hire for attitude, yet more often than not truly enterprising, creative people get overlooked or branded as "risky"....continued

For the UK to stay ahead in an increasingly competitive global economy, businesses need to employ highly skilled, creative, ambitious and enterprising staff – people who can spot opportunities and have new ideas. Yet enterprise is often missing from employability debates and companies are often reluctant to recruit entrepreneurial individuals who they perceive as ‘risky’, the Make Your Mark campaign warns today....continued

KIND hearts will make a massive difference to students at a Tyneside special school....continued

The urgent cry of the Leitch report to up-skill the UK’s workforce to save us from a “lingering decline in competitiveness, diminishing economic growth and a bleaker future for all”, as well as this year’s CBI audit of business education and skills, which showed that 40% of employers worry about their employees' basic skills, has led, quite rightly, to concern about the state of the nation’s workforce. ...continued

DURING the past few weeks, I have been working alongside Dr Piers Thompson of the University of Glamorgan to examine the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) and utilise the fantastic dataset we have to examine the specific phenomenon of those who start up more than one business, commonly known as habitual entrepreneurs....continued

Is enterprise education the answer to the volunteer shortage? Rachael Anderton from enterprise education charity, Young Enterprise, argues it can teach us a thing or two...continued

KYLIE Minogue and David Beckham were in Blackpool this week to help reward young people with an eye for business. OK, so the stars were in fact only lookalikes, but they added a star-studded sparkle to the Blackpool HERO awards ceremony....continued

It was awarded the prestigious award for its activities to develop students enterprising and entrepreunerial skills through a plan, do and review approach....continued

Schools across the North East are to link up with counterparts in Vietnam and Malaysia for a three-year project....continued

Music students at a Blackpool college were left star-struck when two top musicians paid them a visit. ...continued

Young people who take part in enterprise education at school are twice as likely to start up their own companies....continued

Pupils from three Midland schools are celebrating after being chosen to represent the region in the national Young Enterprise competition....continued

YOUNG Enterprise North East programmes can only be successful if they have the support and appreciation of dedicated Link Teachers. These dedicated facilitators are the crucial link between the students, the business volunteers and the learning provided by Young Enterprise North East programmes....continued

aura Gilfedder, a Year 11 student at St. Mary's High School, Brollagh has been rewarded with a trip of a lifetime to Canada following her exceptional success on this year's Knowledge Through Enterprise for Youth Programme (KEY)....continued

A FORMER world champion boxer has been introducing Blackpool children to a knock-out new youth scheme....continued

Deborah Stewart and Alan Goulder overview a programme that has helped to introduce business continuity to young people....continued

Many schools are happy to leave assessment of health and safety on work experience placements to outside agencies, but does this allow them to properly exercise their duty of care? Ruth Bradbury examines the problems and provides practical advice on how schools can play a more active role in the process...continued

YOUNG gardeners from a Northumberland first school have discussed how to transform a plot of wasteland within their school grounds into a state of the art nature and eco-friendly technology garden....continued

A new initiative to promote enterprise in schools was launched this week with help of celebrity businessman Peter Jones...continued

The Conservative Party has outlined its proposals to fix the Government's business support system, which has been described as both "complex" and "out of control"....continued

If your business was wrestling with a problem and your staff were running into the sand, would you turn to a group of schoolchildren for the answer?...continued

INSPIRING young people to consider self-employment is vital to the future of the region’s economy, say business support experts....continued